>The rest of the article is just "I did a stupid degree and didn't get a job!" I agree that the examples in the article aren't great. I think "I did a stupid d

>The rest of the article is just "I did a stupid degree and didn't get a job!" I agree that the examples in the article aren't great. I think "I did a stupid degree and didn't get a job!" is a bit unfair. In my state-run sixth form college (age 16-18 in the UK) all students were encouraged to go to university. But unfortunately, and I think wrongly, many were encouraged to study subjects which required both exceptional talent and luck to end up working in the field, e.g. music technology, fine art, and photography. Fair enough if they want to do it for personal reasons, but a lot of people were sold university courses (by further and higher ed institutions) as a way into a careers that don't really exist or very few in number.